Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
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Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
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Re: Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
#2Many of the moons now seen orbiting the planet probably formed after Triton settled into its unusual retrograde orbit about Neptune.
Or they were captured out of the Kuiper Belt as well. Maybe Neptune keeps losing and capturing new moons, rotating rocks into and out of the Kuiper Belt.
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#3That's no moon!
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#4With Earth-like planets being discovered in far off star systems and HD cameras roving about on Mars, it's easy to forget how much of our own solar system is still an unexplored frontier. It may not be a ground breaking discovery, but the fact that there are Moons we haven't found as of yet, is really exciting to me!
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#5That's no moon!
Ah, you are testing the assumption that the moon was there when Voyager flew by :-)
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#7With Earth-like planets being discovered in far off star systems and HD cameras roving about on Mars, it's easy to forget how much of our own solar system is still an unexplored frontier. It may not be a ground breaking discovery, but the fact that there are Moons we haven't found as of yet, is really exciting to me!
When you consider that the solar system is the only part of the universe that humans will explore for many generations, if ever, I'm not really sure why its exploration really isn't a higher priority. Everything else is too far away.
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#8With Earth-like planets being discovered in far off star systems and HD cameras roving about on Mars, it's easy to forget how much of our own solar system is still an unexplored frontier. It may not be a ground breaking discovery, but the fact that there are Moons we haven't found as of yet, is really exciting to me!
When you consider that the solar system is the only part of the universe that humans will explore for many generations, if ever, I'm not really sure why its exploration really isn't a higher priority. Everything else is too far away.
As soon as we can make some new advancements in energy generation and storage, I think that we'll see this happen. Think about it, we're already practically bursting at the seams here on earth; I can totally see the human race expanding to other parts as soon as it's sustainable (food, acquisition of new materials for fabrication, etc.)
Who knows if it'll happen in my lifetime, but I'm pretty pumped about it :)
Re: Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
#9With Earth-like planets being discovered in far off star systems and HD cameras roving about on Mars, it's easy to forget how much of our own solar system is still an unexplored frontier. It may not be a ground breaking discovery, but the fact that there are Moons we haven't found as of yet, is really exciting to me!
When you consider that the solar system is the only part of the universe that humans will explore for many generations, if ever, I'm not really sure why its exploration really isn't a higher priority. Everything else is too far away.
because we're learning about the universe by studying it
Re: Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
#10With Earth-like planets being discovered in far off star systems and HD cameras roving about on Mars, it's easy to forget how much of our own solar system is still an unexplored frontier. It may not be a ground breaking discovery, but the fact that there are Moons we haven't found as of yet, is really exciting to me!
When you consider that the solar system is the only part of the universe that humans will explore for many generations, if ever, I'm not really sure why its exploration really isn't a higher priority. Everything else is too far away.
It's a higher priority in the same vein as exploration was a priority before Europe discovered and exploited all of its natural resources. Some of that stuff wasn't where they were.
E.G. Coffee wasn't a European thing in the old world before trade throughout the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia.
Likewise we have no idea what new discoveries we can observe from afar (I mean relative to our own dinky little mud-ball floating in space) than in our back yard of the solar system. So you shotgun the science in hopes of hitting something everywhere.